BizSeek's founder Takao
Ozawa was the first person in Japan to receive an order. Ozawa
comments, "As an early adopter, I wanted to invest my own money
to show the rest of society what the electric car experience is
like. And now that I own a Tesla, I've found that not only is
it efficient and beautiful – but it’s really, really
fast!"

Vincent and Maggie Argiro -- the first Canadian
owners -- sold their Ferrari 360 Modena to buy the Roadster.
They blog,
"The 2010 Roadster feels solid, quite refined. The driving
was both thrilling and more relaxing than we had experienced with
other sports cars we have owned. Breathing totally clean air around
us was so refreshing and made it that much more shocking when we
re-entered the filthy exhaust stream of a petro-burner ahead of
us!"

They say the Ferrari is in "excellent
condition, but a bit obsolete."

In related Tesla news,
the company is fleshing out its partnership
with Toyota to deliver at least some of the company's
electric vehicles. Tesla writes that
its first RAV4 EV crossover SUV prototype is complete and that it is
on pace to deliver a test fleet of the EV SUVs before the year's
end.

The press release states that the vehicle will go on sale
in 2012.

"It's okay. The scenarios aren't that clear. But it's good looking. [Steve Jobs] does good design, and [the iPad] is absolutely a good example of that." -- Bill Gates on the Apple iPad